Intent Quotes

“God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.”

“Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”

“It's obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him.”

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“When I put the gun in my bag, I intended to find David and shoot him.”

“A good intention is a credit to the soul, but it is not a work.”

“We don't want to be preachy. We don't want to tell people what to think.”

“I always rib people, but I don't mean anything by it.”

“I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a utility picture.”

“The first and fundamental rule in the interpretation of all instruments is, to construe them according to the sense of the terms, and the intention of the parties.”

“I wasn't trying to hurt anyone... I was telling a story of a great love that I had in my life.”

“We're not trying to make a statement. We're trying to tell a story.”

“The Grandissimes was a story of Louisiana, but it was intended to be a story of the South.”

“I want to make photographs that are emotional.”

“It is a great evil, that of the politics of motives.”

“I wanted to kill those guys. I wanted to maim those guys. I wanted to make them suffer in every way I could.”

“I was going to gouge one of the guy's eyes out with my keys afterwards.”

“Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”

“I don't just try to be funny.”

“What I have done, I have done in the interests of the country as I see them.”